When checking out my Google Scholar profile today, I noticed that, if a blog post is cited, it will be counted as an article by Google Scholar. This is interesting for several perhaps conflicting reasons:

These items are (often) not digitally preserved and have unstable URLs

These items are not peer reviewed (does this matter? probably not)

These items are not "amplified" by traditional publishers

These items are not locatable through traditional library discoverability channels

These items are not deposited in institutional repositories (and eprints has no "blog post" option) [this would aid with point #1 if it did]

These are just observations, not criticisms and certainly not meant to start another meta discussion. I was just intrigued that Google just went and counted it. If the preservation options were sorted, this would be an extremely interesting development...